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Rather, anyone who suggests there might, repeat might, be effects other than CO2 on the climate is called a denialist (with its unpleasant connations) and any other ad hominem that springs to the mind of those who unquestioningly accept that AGW is the sole cause of climate change.

I can tell you it's damned annoying to be an absolutely raving tree hugger (as I am,) entirely persuaded that the climate is warming and industrial civilization is the principal cause (as I am), and still to get labelled a denialist just for thinking that I or anyone should be able to scrutinize and replicate the entire process from unfiltered raw temperature or proxy data through all the data-selection, weighting, and processing steps to final output in the form of a given climatology paper's conclusions section.

After all is said and done, I guess I'd just like to go on my way having at least convinced you that one can arrive at agnosticism about the historical Jesus honestly and that, superficially similar "denialist" attitudes notwithstanding, I, for one, do not take a creationist's attitude toward potentially disconfirming evidence, and that I am genuinely interested in learning.

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“At the same time it’s clear that technology and the mechanisms of the Web have been accelerating certain trends already percolating through our culture — including the blurring of news and entertainment, a growing polarization in national politics, a deconstructionist view of literature (which emphasizes a critic’s or reader’s interpretation of a text, rather than the text’s actual content), the prominence of postmodernism in the form of mash-ups and bricolage, and a growing cultural relativism that has been advanced on the left by multiculturalists and radical feminists, who argue that history is an adjunct of identity politics, and on the right by creationists and climate-change denialists, who suggest that science is an instrument of leftist ideologues.”